Sentences with phrase «in laboratory activities»

The statement must confirm that the applicant is free from any communicable disease and does not have any physical, emotional, or mental problems, or any other restrictions, which may affect the applicant's satisfactory progression in the educational program or participation in any laboratory activities.

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A cutting - edge simulation laboratory held by the United Nations in order to explore how blockchain technology can help empower women who participate in a spectrum of humanitarian activities is underway.

It is an amazing process of refinement by which the exceedingly human activity that goes on in the laboratory — broken test tubes, bright ideas, discussions with colleagues — ends up as a single sentence in a journal: «The reaction was found to be aided by the addition of 3 % NaOH.»

I recently visited a laboratory in which the activities of individual neurons were being monitored by transducing the neural impulses to pulses of sound.

** To determine if the special antibacterial activity is present in manuka honey each batch must be tested (after packing) in specifically approved laboratories using stringent criteria laid down by the UMF Honey Association.

Leatherhead's research activity has seen significant growth in recent years and the new laboratory is designed to cope with this continued trend.

Thirty - six hands on cooking and food activities were conducted throughout the school year, including three days of eighth grade science laboratory covering chemical and physical reactions using various food items and in depth agriculture lessons on processing chicken.

In addition, «emeritus awards to induce senior scientists to wind down their laboratory activities» could help clear the way for newcomers.

The researchers collected the brain activity — five additional sensors were placed on the volunteers» faces to allow researchers to screen for the impact of random movement, including eye blinks — and then mapped the signals back to the brain to determine how specific parts of the brain are involved in discrete tasks associated with walking, said Trieu Phat Luu, co-first author and a post-doctoral researcher in the Noninvasive Brain - Machine Interface System Laboratory at UH.

In a study under way at USP's Neuroimaging Laboratory (LIM - 21), the researchers are now seeking to correlate the cognitive profile observed in the two groups of cocaine - dependent patients with decision - making and resting - state brain activity, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRIIn a study under way at USP's Neuroimaging Laboratory (LIM - 21), the researchers are now seeking to correlate the cognitive profile observed in the two groups of cocaine - dependent patients with decision - making and resting - state brain activity, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRIin the two groups of cocaine - dependent patients with decision - making and resting - state brain activity, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

Laboratory mice that have received rapamycin have reduced the age - dependent decline in spontaneous activity, demonstrated more fitness, improved cognition and cardiovascular health, had less cancer and lived substantially longer than mice fed a normal diet.

NIH backing for career training will have to not only inspire institutions to commit serious resources but also persuade potentially reluctant PIs to allow or even encourage postdocs to take time away from the bench for activities contributing to their own, rather than the lab's, advancement.If successful, however, this initiative could also focus PIs» attention on the fact that preparing postdocs for careers — and not having them merely provide cheap labor for research projects — is the most important reason for their presence in the nation's laboratories.

However, you should make an effort to join your laboratory colleagues in some of the nonacademic activities.

Their team persuaded 22 volunteers — some Doom experts, some casual players, and mostly male — to spend two nights in their laboratory hooked up to an electroencephalograph (EEG), which measures the brain's electrical activity.

«The major advancement of this new tool is the ability to use a low - cost and accessible imaging method such as EEG to depict deeply located brain activity,» said both senior author Dr. Talma Hendler of Tel - Aviv University in Israel and The Sagol Brain Center at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, and first author Jackob Keynan, a PhD student in Hendler's laboratory, in an email to Biological Psychiatry.

Beckmann has turned a modest amount of state economic - development funding — the institute has received about $ 1.6 million a year in state support since its inception in 2007 — into a handful of achievements, including $ 26 million in additional funding with affiliated researchers at Oregon universities and companies and a laboratory capable of screening more than 10,000 chemicals a day for druglike activity.

The new realization for the computational scheme of a neuron calls into question the spike sorting technique which is at the center of activity of hundreds of laboratories and thousands of scientific studies in neuroscience.

So Axel Visel of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California focused on «enhancers»: short sequences of DNA — which are still sometimes called «junk» — that do not code for genes but can influence their activity.

In particular, Panksepp's work has focused on «the possibility that our most commonly used animal subjects, laboratory rodents, may have social - joy type experiences during their playful activities and that an important communicative - affective component of that process, which invigorates social engagement, is a primordial form of laughter.»

Back in the laboratory, the scientists proved that the parental lines» gene activity is added up in the newly created lines.

Her laboratory has shown that teenagers who have greater activity in this reward system show fewer symptoms of depression a year later.

In fact, by knocking out specific genes through CRISPR gene - editing technology, Julie Mathieu, acting instructor in Ruohola - Baker laboratory, demonstrated that it was possible to stabilize the cells in either the primed or naive state by manipulating NNMT activity alonIn fact, by knocking out specific genes through CRISPR gene - editing technology, Julie Mathieu, acting instructor in Ruohola - Baker laboratory, demonstrated that it was possible to stabilize the cells in either the primed or naive state by manipulating NNMT activity alonin Ruohola - Baker laboratory, demonstrated that it was possible to stabilize the cells in either the primed or naive state by manipulating NNMT activity alonin either the primed or naive state by manipulating NNMT activity alone.

Depth horizons with functional genes indicative of methane - cycling and sulfate - reducing microorganisms are enriched in solid - phase sulfur and total organic carbon, host δ13C - and δ34S - isotopic values with a biological imprint, and show clear signs of microbial activity when incubated in the laboratory.

When beavers go out of control, their activities can transform the landscape for decades or centuries, even indefinitely, says Marta Lizarralde, a researcher with the Molecular Ecology Laboratory at the Southern Center for Scientific Research (CADIC) in Ushuaia, Argentina.

Using electroencephalograms (EEG) that measure brain activity, they recorded how deep and how long each participant's nightly sleep was in a controlled, laboratory setting.

Scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have shown for the first time that dark fiber — the vast network of unused fiber - optic cables installed throughout the country and the world — can be used as sensors for detecting earthquakes, the presence of groundwater, changes in permafrost conditions, and a variety of other subsurface activity.

«We've got a spacecraft on the way to Ceres, so we don't have to wait long before getting more context on this intriguing result, right from the source itself,» said Carol Raymond, the deputy principal investigator for Dawn at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «Dawn will map the geology and chemistry of the surface in high resolution, revealing the processes that drive the outgassing activity.»

Other researchers involved in the study, conducted entirely at NYU Langone, were Mariela Mitre, BE; James D'amour, BSc; and Moses Chao, PhD, whose laboratory developed the oxytocin receptor antibody used to track hormone activity.

The research group's studies show that IFNL4 has a powerful antiviral activity in the laboratory, and behaves in every way like any other member of the interferon family.

«This work shows that dendritic spines, which are sub-micrometer compartments within individual neurons, are the prime candidates for the initial tag of transient, millisecond synaptic activity that eventually orchestrates memory traces in the brain lasting tens of years,» said Shahid Khan, senior scientist at the Molecular Biology Consortium at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a co-author on the PNAS paper.

The specificity of this DNA cutting activity has made CRISPR - Cas the darling of gene therapy researchers, who have modified it to make precise changes in the genomes of cultured cells, laboratory animals, and even humans.

The epidemic has triggered a wave of activity in French laboratories.

Neuroscientists have mostly studied changes in brain activity that correlate with stimuli we can present in the laboratory, such as a picture, a touch, or a sound.

The irony was that these «extracurricular» activities in graduate school were instrumental in helping me land a plum postdoc at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and a fellowship in Washington D.C. — and launching me on the exciting and fulfilling career that I have today.

By using supercomputers such as Titan, a large multidisciplinary team of scientists led by Peter Thornton of the US Department of Energy's (DOE's) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) had the power required to integrate massive codes that combine physical and biological processes in Earth system with feedbacks from human activity.

The activities include hands - on fun sessions in laboratories, teacher mentoring and inspiring talks for young people by STEM ambassadors.

«There is a lot of informal, self - organizing activity regarding ADS,» says Stuart Henderson, associate director for accelerators at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois.

«Our results show that average annual injection well locations are a predictor of increasing earthquake activity,» said Ryan M. Pollyea, an assistant professor with the Virginia Tech College of Science's geosciences department, and director of the Computational Geofluids Laboratory, who spearheaded the study, published online in the journal Geology.

«We are pleased to have obtained the same results in two different laboratories and we look forward to translating these preclinical findings into combination approaches with entinostat to enhance the clinical activity of immune checkpoint inhibition.»

The compounds were designed, synthesized and tested for biological activity at the Technical University of Munich in Garching, structurally characterized at the CSIR National Chemical Laboratory in Pune (India) and at the Università di Napoli Federico II in Italy.

«The Laboratory exceeded expectations» in its progress toward being ready to fully resume activities in PF - 4, the evaluation said.

The fracas centers on allegations by CDC's Robert Lanciotti, chief of the Diagnostics and Reference Laboratory activity for mosquito - spread viruses in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Either p53 itself is mutated or there is a problem with one of the proteins that regulate p53's activity,» says the study's leader Geoffrey M. Wahl, Ph.D., a professor in the Gene Expression Laboratory.

With its world - renowned thematic programming introduced by the CRM in the 80's, its scientific workshops and outreach activities, its 1,500 annual visiting scientists from around the world, and ten laboratories directly involving more than 200 researchers from twelve major universities in Quebec and Ontario, the Centre de recherches mathématiques (CRM) is a major hub for the mathematical sciences.

Likewise, genomic testing has moved from a limited research activity to specialized institutes, to a clinical test available in dozens of academic and commercial laboratories.

Joslin scientists in the Tseng Laboratory of the Section on Integrative Physiology and Metabolism previously discovered that one type of bone morphogenetic protein, BMP - 7, plays a key role in the control of brown fat formation and its heat - producing activity, which regulates whole body metabolism.

Jens Frydenvang, a researcher from the Los Alamos National Laboratory and one of those analyzing the Curiosity's findings, said that while they are still trying to determine how the rocks were enriched with silica, many of their hypotheses point to the possibility that Mars experienced considerable water activity in the past.

Although Doty continued to guide the scientific activities of his laboratory, he began in the late 1950s to do so at a distance because of his increasing concern with atomic disarmament issues.

But Jerry Nickles and Jonathan Engle [the past and present directors of the campus PET Cyclotron Laboratory] are the best in the world at making chemically pure manganese chloride with determined radiological activity.

In order to obtain the comprehensive designation, which is the highest ranking the National Cancer Institute (NCI) gives, a center must meet strict criteria that include a strong core of basic laboratory research in several fields, the ability to translate those research findings into therapies that can one day be used to treat patients, a program of high - priority clinical trials, and a commitment to community service and outreach activities related to cancer prevention and controIn order to obtain the comprehensive designation, which is the highest ranking the National Cancer Institute (NCI) gives, a center must meet strict criteria that include a strong core of basic laboratory research in several fields, the ability to translate those research findings into therapies that can one day be used to treat patients, a program of high - priority clinical trials, and a commitment to community service and outreach activities related to cancer prevention and controin several fields, the ability to translate those research findings into therapies that can one day be used to treat patients, a program of high - priority clinical trials, and a commitment to community service and outreach activities related to cancer prevention and control.